Mompou played by Mompou....
Classical Music for Aficionados
I would like to start a thread, similar to Orpheus’ jazz site, for lovers of classical music.
I will list some of my favorite recordings, CDs as well as LP’s. While good sound is not a prime requisite, it will be a consideration.
Classical music lovers please feel free to add to my lists.
Discussion of musical and recording issues will be welcome.
I’ll start with a list of CDs. Records to follow in a later post.
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique. Chesky — Royal Phil. Orch. Freccia, conductor.
Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn. Vanguard Classics — Vienna Festival Orch. Prohaska, conductor.
Prokofiev: Scythian Suite et. al. DG — Chicago Symphony Abbado, conductor.
Brahms: Symphony #1. Chesky — London Symph. Orch. Horenstein, conductor.
Stravinsky: L’Histoire du Soldat. HDTT — Ars Nova. Mandell, conductor.
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances. Analogue Productions. — Dallas Symph Orch. Johanos, cond.
Respighi: Roman Festivals et. al. Chesky — Royal Phil. Orch. Freccia, conductor.
All of the above happen to be great sounding recordings, but, as I said, sonics is not a prerequisite.
I will list some of my favorite recordings, CDs as well as LP’s. While good sound is not a prime requisite, it will be a consideration.
Classical music lovers please feel free to add to my lists.
Discussion of musical and recording issues will be welcome.
I’ll start with a list of CDs. Records to follow in a later post.
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique. Chesky — Royal Phil. Orch. Freccia, conductor.
Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn. Vanguard Classics — Vienna Festival Orch. Prohaska, conductor.
Prokofiev: Scythian Suite et. al. DG — Chicago Symphony Abbado, conductor.
Brahms: Symphony #1. Chesky — London Symph. Orch. Horenstein, conductor.
Stravinsky: L’Histoire du Soldat. HDTT — Ars Nova. Mandell, conductor.
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances. Analogue Productions. — Dallas Symph Orch. Johanos, cond.
Respighi: Roman Festivals et. al. Chesky — Royal Phil. Orch. Freccia, conductor.
All of the above happen to be great sounding recordings, but, as I said, sonics is not a prerequisite.
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Once, when serving as a judge in the International Rubinstein Piano Competition in Tel Aviv, one of the contestants played a Prokofiev Toccata faster and louder than anyone else. Fleisher turned to a fellow judge, and remarked: “Why does he hate his mother?” In an open letter in the Washington Post, “My White House Dilemma,” he
protested the Bush White House’s policies regarding the Iraq War, the
torture of prisoners, and other decisions that he said amounted to a
“systematic shredding of our nation’s Constitution [that] have left us
weak and shamed at home and in the world.” He ended up attending the
event wearing a peace symbol and a purple ribbon.
https://www.juancole.com/2020/08/fleisher-reinvented-inspired.html |
After Mompou discrete spiritual awakenings... My beloved Scriabin by the great Michael Ponti, the recording alas! is not great but i listen to it with pleasure....(the recording is surprizingly better than it was in my improved audio system wow) All piano of Scriabin for peanuts... Scriabin and Bach are my gods..... With Bach the emotions are reflected in an ideal mirror, and the soul is invited to be elevated freely to a higher dimension...Some angel gives to you his hand..... With Scriabin the emotions are transmuted in more intense dynamical one and the soul is projected against his own will in a bath of never encountered new colors where man begins to discover himself greater than he is....(daimonic) Man is raped by an angel here..... |
Thanks Jazcador, you are very kind.....And someone else must read your post...I will concur with you.... But Sofronitsky is already my favorite pianist for Scriabin.... I listen to all great artists able to play Scriabin.... Like for Bach i enjoy all interpretation.... :) But do you know also Boris Zukhov interpretation? It is among the best.... |
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